Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Entering Beautiful Places

"The
mere thought of walking outdoors on a brilliant golden-blue day causes
fire-works of delight to go off in most people’s psyche. It gives one
an instant feeling of happiness and that is meditation! We are not only
in touch, at that moment, with the physical splendor of nature, but
also with the beauty of merging our own spiritual nature with it." - Karen Zebroff

“The
subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal
acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be
invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to
the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.”
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Walking in the morning takes you to beautiful places where light and shade make love.”
- Mohamed Shareef

"Walking
is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness
and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between
spirit and humility."
- Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild

“Walking
shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of
the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the
body and the body through the world.” - Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking